7+ hour, 19+ min ago   (366+ words) While acres of text have been devoted to controls on how students use AI, the LLM habits of much of the rest of society – including the nation’s law makers – remains relatively unscrutinised. Should Parliamentarians be allowed to rely on AI…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (338+ words) Future Campus Guranteed Research Right For All Is A Goner ​Greg Baker claims another win in his Fair Work Commission case against Macquarie U, reporting the university has not lodged an appeal in the standard 21 days. This seems a remarkably…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago   (523+ words) Academic publications are expected to rise by more than 500,000 this year, to 6 million – creating headaches for knowledge custodians (as well as readers). China overtook the US in scientific research output from around 2018 – which coincidentally is also the year that Australia…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1055+ words) ​Why bother calling staff ‘professional’ if they are going to be ignored anyway? Over the past couple of decades, a grudging acceptance that the majority of employees in the higher education sector added some value resulted in a move from…...

3+ week, 58+ min ago   (628+ words) Future Campus Protecting Integrity but Losing Learning? Rethinking Assessment in the Age of AI Generative AI has transformed one of higher education's most fundamental questions: how do we know that students have genuinely learned? Universities across the world are rethinking…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (433+ words) ​A year back, Thomas Corbin and Deakin U colleagues created a stir with a tough-minded argument that AI was a “wicked problem” for university assessment, that there are better or worse ways of dealing with it, but nothing will solve…...